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The Meters of Boethius: Meter 13
Verse Indeterminate Saxon


Ic wille mid giddum      get gecyðan
hu se ælmihtga      ealla gesceafta
bryrð mid his bridlum,      begð ðider he wile
mid his anwalde,      ge endebyrd

5

wundorlice      wel gemetgað.
Hafað swa geheaðorad      heofona wealdend,
utan befangen      ealla gesceafta,
geræped mid his racentan,      þæt hi aredian ne magon
þæt hi hi æfre him      of aslepen;

10

and þeah wuhta gehwilc      wrigað toheald
sidra gesceafta,      swiðe onhelded
wið þæs gecyndes      þe him cyning engla,
fæder æt frymðe,      fæste getiode.
Swa nu þinga gehwilc      ðiderweard fundað

15

sidra gesceafta,      buton sumum englum
and moncynne,      þara micles to feola
woroldwuniendra      winð wið gecynde.
þeah nu on londe      leon gemete,
wynsume wiht      wel atemede,

20

hire magister      miclum lufige,
and eac ondræde      dogora gehwelce,
gif hit æfre gesælð      þæt hio æniges
blodes onbyrgeð,      ne ðearf beorna nan
wenan þære wyrde      þæt hio wel siððan

25

hire taman healde,      ac ic tiohhie
þæt hio ðæs niwan taman      nauht ne gehicgge,
ac ðone wildan gewunan      wille geþencan
hire eldrena;      onginð eorneste
racentan slitan,      ryn, grymetigan,

30

and ærest abit      hire agenes
huses hirde,      and hraðe siððan
hæleða gehwilcne      þe hio gehentan mæg.
Nele hio forlætan      libbendes wuht,
neata ne monna,      nimð eall þæt hio fint.

35

Swa doð wudufuglas;      þeah hi wel sien,
tela atemede,      gif hi on treowum weorðað
holte tomiddes,      hræðe bioð forsewene
heora lareowas,      þe hi lange ær
tydon and temedon.      Hi on treowum wilde

40

ealdgecynde      a forð siððan
willum wuniað,      þeah him wolde hwilc
heora lareowa      listum beodan
þone ilcan mete      þe he hi æror mid
tame getede.      Him þa twigu þincað

45

emne swa merge      þæt hi þæs metes ne recð,
ðincð him to ðon wynsum      þæt him se weald oncwyð;
þonne hi geherað      hleoðrum brægdan
oðre fugelas,      hi heora agne
stefne styriað;      stunað eal geador

50

welwynsum sanc,      wudu eallum oncwyð.
Swa bið eallum treowum      þe him on æðele bið
þæt hit on holte      hyhst geweaxe;
þeah ðu hwilcne boh      byge wið eorðan,
he bið upweardes,      swa ðu an forlætst

55

widu on willan,      went on gecynde.
Swa deð eac sio sunne,      þonne hio on sige weorðeð,
ofer midne dæg,      merecondel scyfð
on ofdæle,      uncuðne weg
nihtes geneðeð,      norð eft and east;

60

eldum oteweð,      brencð eorðwarum
morgen meretorhtne.      Hio ofer moncyn stihð
a upweardes,      oð hio eft cymeð
þær hire yfemesð bið      eard gecynde.
Swa swa ælc gesceaft      ealle mægene

65

geond ðas widan woruld      wrigað and higað,
ealle mægene      eft symle onlyt,
wið his gecyndes      cymð to, ðonne hit mæg.
Nis nu ofer eorðan      ænegu gesceaft
þe ne wilnie      þæt hio wolde cuman

70

to þam earde      þe hio of becom;
þæt is orsorgnes      and ecu rest,
þæt is openlice      ælmihti god.
Nis nu ofer eorðan      ænegu gesceaft
þe ne hwearfige,      swa swa hweol deð,

75

on hire selfre.      Forðon hio swa hwearfað,
þæt hio eft cume      þær hio æror wæs;
þonne hio ærest sie      utan behwerfed,
þonne hio ealles wyrð      utan becerred,
hio sceal eft don      þæt hio ær dyde,

80

and eac wesan      þæt hio æror wæs.




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